Ancestry of
Roy Rogers

Cowboy movie actor and singer

William Skepper

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Roy Rogers — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1694 
  • Father:
  • Edward Skepper 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Robinson   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Nov 1597 
  • Christening Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 1650 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Fisher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jan 1638/1639 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
  • Child:

  Sarah Skepper (Ahnentafel No:847 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Skepper's surname is sometimes spelled Skipper. Apparently the former spelling was consistently used in England, while the latter spelling was prevalent in New England.

• Additional marriages for William Skepper

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• Sources for William Skepper

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, pp. 81-85.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 307.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 88.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 09/20/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 152.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 924.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and Christopher C. Child, "The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of Wales", (accessed 11/30/2017).

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